Phil1111

Some lawyers are honest I know. Another factor is they don't want to be associated with abuse of the system.

Thats true but you compare apples to apples. I don't see any US figures for active cases. I use the NYT https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html Hospitalized is not the same as unrecovered. It doesn't include self isolation, etc. So total diagnosed cases to total deaths in both countries factored for population ranks them both equally.

Mortality divided into total cases. US v Canada

Canada is 11 percent of US pop. This is where i get my info: https://covid19tracker.ca/ So something doesn't jive.

Manitoba used to be the Canadian poster child for responsible covid behavior. Now its among the worst. Somebody was bringing cases in and the Mounties are in charge. Contrary to rumors that they "always get their man". I doubt it.

Rats likely found out trump didn't like to pay.

Canada currently has 24% of the covid cases that the US has per population. Canada currently has 40% of the covid fatality rate that the US has per population. Canada has 11% of US pop. Perhaps single payer health care has better health outcomes. Perhaps a socalist-commie Prime Minister is better than a trump one. Where was that trump death clock? Actually the trump death factor correction comes within about 3% of the overall Canadian death rate.

Seventy one million Americas say it won't be corrected on the 20th.

Even better "one of the president’s friends told me. “It’s all so bizarre.” "This person, who speaks to the president often — or, more accurately, who listens and says uh-huh as the president speaks — said that Trump is not just done for, but done. “He wants to lose. He’s out of money. He worries about being arrested. He worried about being assassinated,” they said. “It hasn’t been a great experience for him. He likes showing people around the White House, but the actual day-to-day business of being president? It’s been pretty unpleasant for him.” “A lot of what Trump says is the opposite of what he means. That’s true of all of us, to some extent,” the president’s friend said. But when Trump said he didn’t mind losing to Biden, even though he famously hates losers of any ilk, his friend believed him. “He doesn’t believe losing is shameful — quitting is bad. Losing isn’t,” this person said. “He’s afraid. He’s the most insecure, afraid person ever. He’s too afraid to be president. He’s afraid to exercise power. He’s afraid to do the job. It’s why he’s overbearing and crazy — he sabotages himself constantly because he hates himself and wants out. He’s always trying to hurt himself. That guy commits more self-harm than anyone I’ve ever encountered.”

Good one. I had to think for a minute to figure out WTF was going on. Covid iso is taking effect.

I'll put you and Wendy on matching nail guns and have at it. Its usually not about what a person says it is but more deeply rooted psychologies that drive decision making. Many people will be well off but be driven for more. Because their parents suffered financial setbacks late in life and suffered thereafter. As an example.

Forgot religion, fear, racism, isolationism and minuscule tea party government. Selfishness isn't illegal. When someone else who supports trump said their spouse was a higher up employee of the pharma/health industry. That explained allot about their support for trump-GOP. Yes and above. Having said all that Biden needs to address some of these issues. Anti-immigration is not all about Bannon-Miller racism. Biden needs to sell the fiscal advantages of immigration, etc. Sell the fiscal advantages of single payer medicine, etc.

Americans had midterms to send trump a message and they didn't. In this election there was still 72 million votes for trump. Enough to win every single election in American history except his one. You should check the two quoted stories I made in the last week about why trump voters support him and his messaging. Yes its policy but its more about interpersonal values.

You can be certain that the evangelicals will be passing around the collection plates on Sundays. All to raise money for the election. The Dem mobs have to be defeated, no annihilated.

Well it is the heart of evangelical country. They scream, cry and speak as if they were living in the time of Nero. That trump is their crusader ready to slay the heathen mobs.

Or the last few on the GOP side who cared about the constitution, service, America. John McCain for example.

Gonna have to get Wendy a nail gun for all the nails she is driving home.

Why don't you just come out and tell the truth. i.e. I'm self employed, I created my own job, I get nothing from the government. I believe in the smallest government possible. I look after my kids, my wife, my family, my friends. I expect others to do the same. I'm paraphrasing but why don't you expand? If necessary?

Trump has cleared the decks at intelligence and the pentagon.Media is speculating that mid-east troop withdrawals are afoot. My first thought would be nuclear technology for his best friend MBS. Because a golden parachute for his exit from office courtesy the Saudi's would be nice. Arms deals using fake security concerns are my thoughts on it. Others suggest a distracting military issue. Trump Stacks the Pentagon and Intel Agencies With Loyalists. To What End?

The next step will be an electron microscope to find those straws that support Q.

"Months before the Trump administration rolled out its “zero-tolerance” policy on the U.S.-Mexico border, hundreds of migrant children were already being separated from their families with little fanfare. As those children were shuttled around the country in late 2017, their parents were swiftly detained or deported, with few records taken by the government about where they went or how to contact them.... ” Lee Gelernt, an ACLU attorney, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “Not only are we still looking for hundreds of families, but we would have never even known about these families if the Trump administration had its way.”... Of the parents of 545 separated children who have not yet been contacted, lawyers expect 75 will be reachable by phone. Another 187 have been found but not reached successfully, and 283 have not been found entirely. “At some point, we’re going to hit a group of families that becomes very hard to find,” Gelernt said. “It’s not inconceivable that we’ll still be looking for them a year from now.” With little more than a misspelled name or an outdated phone number, the attorneys travel to remote, mountainous villages that are sometimes controlled by gangs and often suspicious of all outsiders. The roads to these tiny hamlets are bumpy and ragged, and the prevailing tongue might be the Mayan language of Mam, not Spanish."

This story is perfect for you. It explains in a very logical fashion how the GOP went down the rabbit hole. What Motivates the Republican Party? The GOP seems wildly hypocritical and unprincipled, until you understand its guiding idea. from Washington Monthly August 2020 "Over the last several decades, the Republican Party has been conquered by the Christian right and the overwhelmingly white Tea Party movement. The former has a theocratic vision for America. The latter militantly opposes economic redistribution. These movements converged with a realization that demographic trends were unfriendly to their party’s older base, generating a white identity politics that found its natural expression in the intensely divisive and intermittently racist stylings of Trump. Consider, for example, Trump’s promise to “Make America Great Again.” It is effectively a pledge to return to the days when white men walked tall in America, Christianity was a quasi-official creed, and foreign influences were on the margins of national life—precisely the world that most Republicans yearn for. Trump’s steady appointment of conservative judges gives evangelicals, many of whom believe that abortion is literal murder, exactly what they want. His heavy (if erratic) investment in restrictionist immigration policies has always been central to his appeal, and the sudden lurch of the GOP in that direction after George W. Bush and John McCain championed a more diverse future was far from being just another area of Republican electoral opportunism. Indeed, some of what Benen sees as simple cynicism is arguably ideological as well. Consider, for example, the party’s embrace of devious voter suppression and gerrymandering. Benen treats these as a by-product of Republican opportunism. But for a party existentially committed to restoring (or preserving) white, Christian supremacy in the face of increasing diversity, they are a direct means of delivering that dominance. Similarly, the determination of Republicans to resist any hint of gun regulation, despite public opinion (which The Imposters documents thoroughly), isn’t just a matter of gun lobby campaign contributions. Instead, it comes from a genuine belief among grassroots conservatives that armed struggle against what Trump calls “radical Democrat elites” must remain an option if conventional politics fails." Ron, what do you think about this article?

Why do you keep using WH sources for your information? Sources of information that pander to trump and his appointees? i have also heard those same reports and they don't pass the smell test. What would those parents gain? What could those children gain? You're a smart guy just step aside a bit from sources of info that are not directly related to trump.

“Save America.” its the new trump PAC aka slush fund. Trump asks for 'election defense' donations, but the money also benefits his new leadership PAC Like anything else to do with trump just follow the money. But he will need money for "election defense" for sure. From Politico "Biden will have one tool, however, that allows him to pursue justice while also ensuring that the process doesn’t appear to be tainted by politics. That tool is the special counsel—a prosecutor appointed not by Biden, but by his attorney general," "Save America end the witch hunt" is probably close. So entrepreneurs poach those domain names.

"No looting and little violence" in the overall equation of licensing polluters over four years. "research from Harvard Law School, Columbia Law School and other sources, counts more than 80 environmental rules and regulations officially reversed, revoked or otherwise rolled back under Mr. Trump. Another 20 rollbacks are still in progress." Kidnapping children from their parents as a national immigration policy. "Lawyers working to reunite migrant families separated by the Trump administration before and during its "zero tolerance" policy at the border now believe the number of separated children for whom they have not been able to find parents is 666, higher than they told a federal judge last month, according to an email obtained by NBC News. Nearly 20 percent, or 129, of those children were under 5 at the time of the separation, according to a source familiar with the data." Trump's separation of families constitutes torture, doctors find IMO kidnappers of children should be shot on sight. The burning and looting of a small American town would not compare to the kidnapping of over 100 children. Anything else?